Group publications

Preprints

• Domenico Ribezzo, Mujtaba Zahidy, Gianmarco Lemmi, Antoine Petitjean, Claudia De Lazzari, Ilaria Vagniluca, Enrico Conca, Alberto Tosi, Tommaso Occhipinti, Leif K. Oxenløwe, André Xuereb, Davide Bacco, Alessandro Zavatta; Quantum Key Distribution over 100 km underwater optical fiber assisted by a Fast-Gated Single-Photon Detector; arXiv:2303.01449.
• Mirko Consiglio, Jacopo Settino, Andrea Giordano, Carlo Mastroianni, Francesco Plastina, Salvatore Lorenzo, Sabrina Maniscalco, John Goold, and Tony J. G. Apollaro; Variational Gibbs State Preparation on NISQ devices; arXiv: 2303.11276.

2023

• Jake Xuereb, Steve Campbell, John Goold, and André Xuereb; Deterministic quantum computation with one-clean-qubit model as an open quantum system; Phys. Rev. A 107, 042222 (2023); arXiv:2209.03947.
• Davide Bacco, Domenico Ribezzo, Mujtaba Zahidy, Claudia De Lazzati, Ilaria Vagniluca, Antoine Petitjean, Gianmarco Lemmi, Tommaso Occhipinti, Francesco Saverio Cataliotti, Leif K. Oxenløwe, André Xuereb, Alessandro Zavatta; Field-trial quantum key distribution between Sicily and Malta; Proc. SPIE 12446, Quantum Computing, Communication, and Simulation III, 124460D (2023).
• Tony J G Apollaro, Salvatore Lorenzo, Francesco Plastina, Mirko Consiglio, Karol Życzkowski; Entangled States Are Harder to Transfer than Product States; Entropy; 2023; 25(1):46; https://doi.org/10.3390/e25010046

2022

• Ivan Alonso, et al.; Cold Atoms in Space: Community Workshop Summary and Proposed Road-Map; EPJ Quantum Technology 9, 30 (2022); arXiv:2201.07789.
• Anina N Rich, André Xuereb, Borys Wróbel, Jeremy Kerr, Kristina Tietjen, Binyam S Mendisu, Vinicius F Farjalla, Jie Xu, Martin Dominik, Gijs Wuite, Oded Hod, Julia K Baum; Back to basics: researchers’ perception on the global state of funding for fundamental research; Global Young Academy (2022).
• Karl Pelka, Guilhem Madiot, Rémy Braive, and André Xuereb; Floquet control of optomechanical bistability in multimode systems; Phys. Rev. Lett. 129, 123603 (2022); arXiv:2106.12647.
• Claudio Sanavio, József Zsolt Bernád, and André Xuereb; Estimation of disorders in the rest positions of two membranes in optomechanical systems; Phys. Rev. A 105, 032423 (2022); arXiv:2111.09583.
• André Xuereb; Quantum Diplomacy: Rebalancing the Power Dynamic through Emerging Technologies; Sci. Dip. February 10, 2022.
• Shabir Barzanjeh, André Xuereb, Simon Gröblacher, Mauro Paternostro, Cindy A Regal, and Eva Weig; Optomechanics for quantum technologies; Nat. Phys. 18, 15 (2022); arXiv:2111.14715.
• Alessio Belenchia, Matteo Carlesso, Ömer Bayraktar, Daniele Dequal, Ivan Derkach, Giulio Gasbarri, Waldemar Herr, Ying Lia Li, Markus Rademacher, Jasminder Sidhu, Daniel KL Oi, Stephan T. Seidel, Rainer Kaltenbaek, Christoph Marquardt, Hendrik Ulbricht, Vladyslav C. Usenko, Lisa Wörner, André Xuereb, Mauro Paternostro, and Angelo Bassi; Quantum Physics in Space; Phys. Rep. 951, 1 (2022); arXiv:2108.01435.
• Mirko Consiglio, Wayne J Chetcuti, Carlos Bravo-Prieto, Sergi Ramos-Calderer, Anna Minguzzi, José I Latorre, Luigi Amico, and Tony J G Apollaro; Variational quantum eigensolver for SU(N) fermions; Journal of Physics A: Mathematical and Theoreti-
  cal 55.26 (2022).
• Mirko Consiglio, Tony J. G. Apollaro, and Marcin Wieśniak; Variational approach to the quantum separability problem; Physical Review A 106.6 (2022).
• Tony J G Apollaro, Salvatore Lorenzo, Francesco Plastina, Mirko Consiglio, and Karol Życzkowski; Quantum transfer of interacting qubits; New Journal of Physics 24.8 (2022).
• Salvatore Lorenzo, Francesco Plastina, Mirko Consiglio, and Tony J. G. Apollaro; Quantum Map Approach to Entanglement Transfer and Generation in Spin Chains; Entanglement in Spin Chains: From Theory to Quantum Technology Applications; Ed. by
  Abolfazl Bayat, Sougato Bose, and Henrik Johannesson; Cham: Springer International Publishing, 2022, pp. 321–340.

2021

• Laura Mercadé, Karl Pelka, Roel Burgwal, André Xuereb, Alejandro Martínez, and Ewold Verhagen; Floquet phonon lasing in multimode optomechanical systems; Phys. Rev. Lett. 127, 073601 (2021); arXiv:2101.10788.
• Mirko Consiglio, Louis Zammit Mangion, and Tony J G, Apollaro; The Role of Localizable Concurrence in Quantum Teleportation Protocols; International Journal of Quantum Information 19.05 (2021).

2020

• Claudio Sanavio, József Zsolt Bernád, and André Xuereb; Fisher information based estimation of optomechanical coupling strengths; Phys. Rev. A 102, 013508 (2020); arXiv:2002.03249.
• André Xuereb; Squeezing hots up; Nat. Phys. 16, 710 (2020); rdcu.be/b5tDe
• Fabienne Schneiter, Sofia Qvarfort, Alessio Serafini, André Xuereb, Daniel Braun, Dennis Rätzel, and David Edward Bruschi; Optimal estimation with quantum optomechanical systems in the nonlinear regime; Phys. Rev. A 101, 033804 (2020); arXiv:1910.04485.
• Abolfazl Bayat, Gabriele De Chiara, Tony J. G. Apollaro, Simone Paganelli, Henrik Johannesson, Pasquale Sodano, Sougato Bose; Quantum Thermodynamics at Impurity Quantum Phase Transitions; In: Ferraz A., Gupta K., Semenoff G., Sodano P. (eds) Strongly Coupled Field Theories for Condensed Matter and Quantum Information Theory. Springer Proceedings in Physics, vol 239. Springer, Cham (2020)
• Tony J. G. Apollaro and Claudio Sanavio and Wayne Jordan Chetcuti and Salvatore Lorenzo; Multipartite entanglement transfer in spin chains; Phys. Lett. A 384, 126306 (2020).
• Samihr Hermes, Tony J. G. Apollaro, Simone Paganelli, Tommaso Macrì; Dimensionality-enhanced quantum state transfer in long-range-interacting spin systems; Phys. Rev. A 101, 053607 (2020).
• Wayne Jordan Chetcuti, Claudio Sanavio, Salvatore Lorenzo and Tony J. G. Apollaro; Perturbative many-body transfer; New J. Phys. 22, 033030 (2020); arXiv:1911.12211.
• Fazal Badshah, Thamer Alharbi, Tony J. G. Apollaro, Qing He, and Ge Guo-Qin; Injected coherence in the tunneling of ultracold atoms through a two-photon mazer in the squeezed vacuum and coherent field distributions;  J. Opt. Soc. Am. B 37, 894 (2020).
• Karl Pelka, Vittorio Peano, and André Xuereb; Chimera states in small optomechanical arrays; Phys. Rev. Research 2, 013201 (2020); arXiv:1905.01115.
• Claudio Sanavio, Vittorio Peano, and André Xuereb; Nonreciprocal topological phononics in optomechanical arrays; Phys. Rev. B 101, 085108 (2020); arXiv:2002.09164.
• Sofia Qvarfort, Alessio Serafini, André Xuereb, Dennis Rätzel, and David Edward Bruschi; Time-evolution of nonlinear optomechanical systems: Interplay of mechanical squeezing and non-Gaussianity; J. Phys. A 53, 075304 (2020); arXiv:1908.00790.
• Sören Wengerowsky, Siddarth Koduru Joshi, Fabian Steinlechner, Julien R. Zichi, Sergiy M. Dobrovolskiy, René van der Molen, Johannes W. N. Los, Val Zwiller, Marijn A. M. Versteegh, Alberto Mura, Davide Calonico, Massimo Inguscio, Hannes Hübel, Anton Zeilinger, André Xuereb, and Rupert Ursin; Passively stable distribution of polarisation entanglement over 192 km of deployed optical fibre; npj Quantum Information 6, 5 (2020); arXiv:1907.04864.

2019

• Tony J. G. Apollaro, Guilherme Almeida, Salvatore Lorenzo, Alessandro Ferraro, and Simone Paganelli; Spin chains for two-qubit teleportation; Phys. Rev. A 100, 052308 (2019).
• Tony J. G. Apollaro and Salvatore Lorenzo; Coexistence of Different Scaling Laws for the Entanglement Entropy in a Periodically Driven System; Proceedings 2019, 12, 6 (2019).
• József Zsolt Bernád, Claudio Sanavio, and André Xuereb; Optimal estimation of matter-field coupling strength in the dipole approximation; Phys. Rev. A 99, 062106 (2019); arXiv:1811.10088.
• Sofia Qvarfort, Alessio Serafini, André Xuereb, Dennis Rätzel, and David Edward Bruschi; Enhanced nonlinearity through optomechanical modulation; New J. Phys. 21, 055044 (2019); arXiv:1812.08874.
• Irene D'Amico, Dimitris G. Angelakis, Felix Bussières, Humeyra Caglayan, Christophe Couteau, Thomas Durt, Branko Kolaric, Patrick Maletinsky, Wolfgang Pfeiffer, Peter Rabl, André Xuereb, and Mario Agio; Nanoscale quantum optics; Riv. Nuovo Cimento 42, 153 (2019); arXiv:1906.07086.
• Sören Wengerowsky, Siddarth Koduru Joshi, Fabian Steinlechner, Julien R. Zichi, Sergiy M. Dobrovolskiy, René van der Molen, Johannes W. N. Los, Val Zwiller, Marijn A. M. Versteegh, Alberto Mura, Davide Calonico, Massimo Inguscio, Hannes Hübel, Anton Zeilinger, André Xuereb, and Rupert Ursin; Entanglement distribution over a 96-km-long submarine optical fiber; Proc. Natl. Acad. Sci. U.S.A. 116, 6684 (2019); arXiv:1803.00583.

2018

• Muhammad T. Naseem, André Xuereb, and Özgür E. Müstecaplıoğlu; Thermodynamic consistency of the optomechanical master equation; Phys. Rev. A 98, 052123 (2018); arXiv:1806.08175.
• Cecilia Clivati, Anna Tampellini, Alberto Mura, Filippo Levi, Giuseppe Marra, Pauline Galea, André Xuereb, and Davide Calonico; Optical frequency transfer over submarine fiber links; Optica 5, 893 (2018).
• David Edward Bruschi, and André Xuereb; 'Mechano-optics': An optomechanical quantum simulator; New J. Phys. 20, 065004 (2018); arXiv:1712.02532.
• Giuseppe Marra, Cecilia Clivati, Luckett Richard, Anna Tampellini, Jochen Kronjäger, Louise Wright, Alberto Mura, Filippo Levi, Stephen Robinson, André Xuereb, Brian Baptie, Davide Calonico; Ultrastable laser interferometry for earthquake detection with terrestrial and submarine cables; Science 361, 486 (2018); arXiv:1801.02698.
• József Zsolt Bernád, Claudio Sanavio, and André Xuereb; Optimal estimation of the optomechanical coupling strength; Phys. Rev. A 97, 063821 (2018); arXiv:1712.09712.
• André Xuereb, Matteo Aquilina, and Shabir Barzanjeh; Routing thermal noise through quantum networks; Proc. SPIE 10672, 10672N (2018); arXiv:1806.01000.
• Vittorio Peano, and Hermann Schulz-Baldes; Topological edge states for disordered bosonic systems; J. Math. Phys. 59, 031901 (2018); arXiv:1708.08798.
• Shabir Barzanjeh, Matteo Aquilina, and André Xuereb; Manipulating the flow of thermal noise in quantum devices; Phys. Rev. Lett. 120, 060601 (2018); arXiv:1706.09051.
• Christian Brendel, Vittorio Peano, Oskar Painter, and Florian Marquardt; Snowflake Topological Insulator for Sound Waves; Phys. Rev. B 97, 020102 (2018); arXiv:1701.06330.

2017

• Christian Brendel, Vittorio Peano, Oskar Painter, and Florian Marquardt; Pseudomagnetic fields for sound at the nanoscale; Proc. Natl. Acad. Sci. U. S. A. 114, E3390 (2017); arXiv:1607.04321.
• Thomas Fösel, Vittorio Peano, and Florian Marquardt; L lines, C points and Chern numbers: understanding band structure topology using polarization fields; New J. Phys. 19, 115013 (2017); arXiv:1703.08191.
• Thales Figueiredo Roque, Vittorio Peano, Oleg M Yevtushenko and Florian Marquardt; Anderson localization of composite excitations in disordered optomechanical arrays; New J. Phys. 19, 013006 (2017); arXiv:1607.04159.

2016

• Vittorio Peano, Martin Houde, Florian Marquardt, and Aashish A. Clerk; Topological quantum fluctuations and travelling wave amplifiers; Phys. Rev. X 6, 041026 (2016); arXiv:1604.04179.
• Bhagya Nair, André Xuereb, and Aurélien Dantan; Cavity optomechanics with arrays of thick dielectric membranes; Phys. Rev. A 94, 053812 (2016); arXiv:1608.03704.
• Jie Li, André Xuereb, Nicola Malossi, and David Vitali; Cavity Mode Frequencies and Large Optomechanical Coupling in Two-Membrane Cavity Optomechanics; J. Opt. 18, 084001 (2016); arXiv:1512.07536.
• Simon Pigeon, and André Xuereb; Thermodynamics of trajectories of open quantum systems, step by step; J. Stat. Mech. 6, 063203 (2016); arXiv:1602.07136.
• Simon Pigeon, Lorenzo Fusco, André Xuereb, Gabriele De Chiara, and Mauro Paternostro; Thermodynamics of trajectories and local fluctuation theorems for harmonic quantum networks; New J. Phys. 18, 013009 (2016); arXiv:1510.01905.
• James Millen, and André Xuereb; Perspective on quantum thermodynamics; New J. Phys. 18, 011002 (2016); arXiv:1509.01086.

2015

• Simon Pigeon, Lorenzo Fusco, André Xuereb, Gabriele De Chiara, and Mauro Paternostro; Thermodynamics of trajectories of a quantum harmonic oscillator coupled to N baths; Phys. Rev. A 92, 013844 (2015); arXiv:1411.2637.
• Matteo Brunelli, André Xuereb, Alessandro Ferraro, Gabriele De Chiara, and Mauro Paternostro; Out-of-equilibrium thermodynamics of quantum optomechanical systems; New J. Phys. 17, 035016 (2015); arXiv:1412.4803.
• André Xuereb, Alberto Imparato, and Aurélien Dantan; Heat transport in harmonic oscillator systems with thermal baths: application to optomechanical arrays; New J. Phys. 17, 055013 (2015); arXiv:1411.1853.
• Simon Pigeon, André Xuereb, Igor Lesanovsky, Juan P. Garrahan, Gabriele De Chiara, and Mauro Paternostro; Dynamical symmetries and crossovers in a three-spin system with collective dissipation; New J. Phys. 17, 015010 (2015); arXiv:1409.0422.
• André Xuereb, Hendrik Ulbricht, and Mauro Paternostro; Macroscopicity in an optomechanical matter-wave interferometer; Opt. Comm. 337, 53 (2015); arXiv:1407.5196.

2014

• Jing Zhang, Tiancai Zhang, André Xuereb, David Vitali, and Jie Li; More nonlocality with less entanglement in a tripartite atom–optomechanical system; Ann. Phys. 527, 147 (2015); arXiv:1402.3872.
• Lorenzo Fusco, Simon Pigeon, Tony J. G. Apollaro, André Xuereb, Laura Mazzola, Michele Campisi, Alessandro Ferraro, Mauro Paternostro, and Gabriele De Chiara; Assessing the Nonequilibrium Thermodynamics in a Quenched Quantum Many-Body System via Single Projective Measurements; Phys. Rev. X 4, 031029 (2014); arXiv:1404.3150.
• André Xuereb, Claudiu Genes, Guido Pupillo, Mauro Paternostro, and Aurélien Dantan; Reconfigurable long-range phonon dynamics in optomechanical arrays; Phys. Rev. Lett. 112, 133604 (2014); arXiv:1312.5303.

2013

• André Xuereb, Hendrik Ulbricht, and Mauro Paternostro; Optomechanical interface for probing matter-wave coherence; Sci. Rep. 3, 3378 (2013); arXiv:1308.3576.
• André Xuereb, Claudiu Genes, and Aurélien Dantan; Collectively-enhanced optomechanical coupling in periodic arrays of scatterers; Phys. Rev. A 88, 053803 (2013); arXiv:1304.4574.
• Claudiu Genes, André Xuereb, Guido Pupillo, and Aurélien Dantan; Enhanced optomechanical readout using optical coalescence; Phys. Rev. A 88, 033855 (2013); arXiv:1304.1715.
• André Xuereb, and Mauro Paternostro; Selectable linear or quadratic coupling in an optomechanical system; Phys. Rev. A 87, 023830 (2013); arXiv:1212.0641.